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Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Wolf
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This reminded me of a short story we had in school a long time ago. It's very similar with another message woven into it than in this fable. There is an earlier version by Plutarch, but this one was adapted to modern times so it's more clear for us to understand the message. Even the title reflects that:
"Anecdote concerning the lowering of productivity"
This is the Wikipedia summary:
The story is set in an unnamed harbor on the west coast of Europe. A smartly-dressed enterprising tourist is taking photographs when he notices a shabbily dressed local fisherman taking a nap in his fishing boat. The tourist is disappointed with the fisherman's apparently lazy attitude towards his work, so he approaches the fisherman and asks him why he is lying around instead of catching fish. The fisherman explains that he went fishing in the morning, and the small catch would be sufficient for the next two days.
The tourist tells him that if he goes out to catch fish multiple times a day, he would be able to buy a motor in less than a year, a second boat in less than two years, and so on. The tourist further explains that one day, the fisherman could even build a small cold storage plant, later a pickling factory, fly around in a helicopter, build a fish restaurant, and export lobster directly to Paris without a middleman.
The nonchalant fisherman asks, "Then what?"
The tourist enthusiastically continues, "Then, without a care in the world, you could sit here in the harbor, doze in the sun, and look at the glorious sea."
"But I'm already doing that", says the fisherman.
The enlightened tourist walks away pensively, with no trace of pity for the fisherman, only a little envy.
I find it fascinating that two stories that are so similar can have so different messages. In one you loose what you had, in the other you so a lot of stuff to regain what you already had, which begs the question why do it at all.
"Anecdote concerning the lowering of productivity"
This is the Wikipedia summary:
The story is set in an unnamed harbor on the west coast of Europe. A smartly-dressed enterprising tourist is taking photographs when he notices a shabbily dressed local fisherman taking a nap in his fishing boat. The tourist is disappointed with the fisherman's apparently lazy attitude towards his work, so he approaches the fisherman and asks him why he is lying around instead of catching fish. The fisherman explains that he went fishing in the morning, and the small catch would be sufficient for the next two days.
The tourist tells him that if he goes out to catch fish multiple times a day, he would be able to buy a motor in less than a year, a second boat in less than two years, and so on. The tourist further explains that one day, the fisherman could even build a small cold storage plant, later a pickling factory, fly around in a helicopter, build a fish restaurant, and export lobster directly to Paris without a middleman.
The nonchalant fisherman asks, "Then what?"
The tourist enthusiastically continues, "Then, without a care in the world, you could sit here in the harbor, doze in the sun, and look at the glorious sea."
"But I'm already doing that", says the fisherman.
The enlightened tourist walks away pensively, with no trace of pity for the fisherman, only a little envy.
I find it fascinating that two stories that are so similar can have so different messages. In one you loose what you had, in the other you so a lot of stuff to regain what you already had, which begs the question why do it at all.
I read that one in Aesop's fables, but the moral at the end was "don't count your chickens before they hatch." Though it didn't go EXACTLY like this, she had the milk on her head, thought about buying the eggs to hatch into chickens, sell those chickens eggs for profit, buy a fancy hair decoration to turn the boys' heads, and she thought about how she'd flip her hair to look hot and that's what caused the milk to fall off her head. She cried to her mother about how her plans to buy chicken eggs with the milk money was ruined and her mother said the chickens before they hatch line...
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